Forced to eject from the damaged attack aircraft, he was soon captured by the enemy forces, interrogated and sent to Hỏa Lò Prison, better known as the “Hanoi Hilton.” Alvarez was both the first ...
German battleship Tirpitz, 1942. (Photo Credit: Division of Naval Intelligence of the Navy Department of the United States / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) From as early as 1942, the Allies (in ...
When you think of history-defining naval vessels, odds are the USS Mason (DE-529) comes to mind. The Evarts-class destroyer escort served valiantly in the final years of the Second World War, but that ...
The Aleutian Islands Campaign of World War II is often overlooked when discussions of the conflict occur. The Japanese invasion and occupation, which ran from 1942-43, saw the region’s Indigenous ...
Throughout the Cold War, militaries across the world were interested in bettering their arsenals in the event of an enemy attack. One particular type of technology that interested nations – ...